On Thu, Feb 09, 2012, Jun Koi wrote: > > sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but i think many people here must > have the same concern, and have to cope with it somehow. > > my concern is that: even if the binary is without the source, the > code is still Python bytecode. and as far as i am aware, it is pretty > trivial to reverse the binary back to the Python code. (i am not very > sure which tools can be used to reverse Python-based .exe files, > though)
Most people have learned to not have this concern. > 1) how serious this problem is in your opinion? is it really true that > it is impossible to protect the binaries from reversing? Not serious enough to warrant your time and money. Absolutely true. The only way to protect your code is to put it on a server. But then people can only use your software when connected to the Internet. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Do not taunt happy fun for loops. Do not change lists you are looping over." --Remco Gerlich _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
